Col. Luigi Bosi

 

Born in Trecenta on 16 January 1813 from Clementina Bartoletti and Modesto Bosi, he initially follows his father's career, who for 45 years serviced his country as part of the kingdom's judiciary system.

 

Thus, upon graduation in philosophical studies, on  3 January 1839 he starts clerking in Venice for the Appellate Court of the Imperial Royal Government and two years later is appointed "Lecturer" (without pay!) at the Imperial Royal Criminal Court in Venice, whence he's eventually dispatched for five months to the Prefecture of Ariano Polesine. On 8 October 1846 he passes "with merit" the exam to become judge and he's assigned to the General Appellate Court of the Veneto Region in Venice when the first revolutionary events erupt in 1948.
 

Abandoning against his father's will the prestigious position, on 28 September 1848 he joins his brother Giacomo signing up as 1st Lieutenant of the Venetian Voluntary Artillery Legion "Bandiera di Moro", where a month later he is appointed Captain. 

 

On 4 May 1849 he renders himself in Venice to defend the town starved by the surrounding Austrians and five days later he is wounded "from a machine gun" at the shoulder. In recognition of his heroism in those days (there's still a monument dedicated to him on the railroad bridge connecting Venice to Marghera) he receives from the (Free) Government of Emilia a Silver Medal for Military Valor and within two months he is promoted Captain of the Artillery Army of the Venetian Land.

 

Trecenta a fine dell'800Following the Austrian restoration he flees abroad (some say to rejoin Garibaldi in the United States) and his name officially reappears only 10 years later when he enlists to join the war as Captain of the Cacciatori degli Appennini, from where a month later he's transferred to the famous Regiment  Corpo Cacciatori delle Alpi. After receiving a medal for his participation to the French war campaign, on 23 March 1862 he is promoted to Major of the Infantry Army and one year later transfers with the same rank to the 5th Regiment of the Granatieri di Napoli.

Finally retiring with the rank of Colonel, on 25 November 1866 he is "almost unanimously" elected as Representative for Badia Polesine at the Parliament and on 31 March 1868 he is appointed Cavaliere dell'Ordine dei Santi Maurizio e Lazzaro.

 At the age of 56 (on 4 June 1869), he is granted the Silver Medal for Civil Valor for having saved with a rowboat a man from who was drowning in the Po flood. He eventually dies in Trecenta after having been appointed in 1892 as Honorary Chairman of the Veneto Regional Committee of the '48-'49 Veterans.